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Used it for a while instead of PhantomJS to automatically create screenshots of webpages. Produces better results (much better custom font support) but slower.
by eknkc 12y ago
Used it for a while instead of PhantomJS to automatically create screenshots of webpages. Produces better results (much better custom font support) but slower. I believe it's because Slimer is not really headless, you need xvfb, a virtual X11 server.
- mootothemax 12y agoProduces better results (much better custom font support)... Hah, funnily enough, that's the exact same reason we're using it as well! PhantomJS's "it'll be ready when it's ready" release cycle has been a bit frustrating, especially with version 2 and its support for custom fonts. It's a shame there's no one perfect solution: PhantomJS is great, shortcomings aside; and SlimerJS is near perfect but slow, slow, slow.
- baudehlo 12y agoPhantomJS (at least the 1.x branch) still randomly crashes a lot too.
- hackerboos 12y agoI've tried it for a screenshot service I was working on. I ended up using Selenium with Firefox because no other system supported Flash.